OTHER E-BOOKS IN THIS SERIES
‘How to achieve what you want, when you want’
7 powerful principles of successful thinking for work, life and everything
by Andy Gilbert, this FREE 33 page e-book is packed with ideas and tips on the 7 principles of successful thinking. It contains 8 top tips to help you define your goals, 5 steps to help you plan your priorities and yet more tips on strengthening your self-belief, how to involve others more successfully and how to make choices. Put into action immediately these ideas will greatly increase your probability of achieving what you want, when you want.
Each of our powerful principles of successful thinking is also the subject of a separate e-book, giving more detail and more tips to help you.
To obtain your copy of this FREE e-book simply visit www.gomadthinking.com
THINKING PRINCIPLE ONE
‘How to develop a personal passion’
Practical tips to increase your motivation to achieve
by Andy Gilbert & Annagail Davies, explains thinking principle one of our Solution Focused ThinkingTM System in greater depth. As well as discovering how to avoid blaming others, you’ll also get great tips on how to increase your motivation to achieve and save yourself masses of time in the process!
THINKING PRINCIPLE TWO
‘How to determine what you want and when you want it’
Pragmatic steps to leaping into the top 5% of goal definers
by Andy Gilbert & Rob Smith, gives you tips on defining exactly what it is you want to achieve, as well as helping to increase your self-belief you can achieve it. It will make your task of deciding priorities, which we cover in this e-book, really easy!
THINKING PRINCIPLE THREE
‘How to produce plentiful possibilities, pressing priorities and perfect plans’
Quick and easy tips to plan your success and get you started
by Andy Gilbert & Ken Hudson, gives you some quick and easy steps to plan your success and get you started. With tips to eliminate time wasting, generate loads of ideas and produce a plan that will work for you, it will help you make your goal come to life and stay alive!
THINKING PRINCIPLE FOUR
‘How to create a self-belief that you can and will achieve’
Powerful insights into building the confidence to succeed
by Andy Gilbert & Graham Field, expands on Henry Ford’s famous quote “Whether you believe you can do a thing or not, you are right." It gives a powerful insight into just how much we are governed by limiting beliefs, and how we can harness the power of our minds to achieve so much more than we ever dreamed possible.
THINKING PRINCIPLE SIX
‘How to make personal choices and take responsibility’
Insightful ideas to help you own your thoughts and actions
by Andy Gilbert & Ken Hudson, takes a hard look at responsibility and its consequences. Personal responsibility lies at the heart of our Solution Focused ThinkingTM System. Without it, the system collapses. Without it, you are missing out on success, respect and leadership. It even promises to be liberating!
THINKING PRINCIPLE SEVEN
‘How to guarantee success’
Clear and simple tips on taking action and measuring results
by Andy Gilbert & Rob Smith, is a hard-hitting finale to the seven key principles of Solution Focused ThinkingTM. As well as challenging your thinking, and challenging you to put it all into practice, there is valuable advice on measuring goals, especially difficult-to-measure things like ‘confidence’. Plus an invitation for you to choose to make a difference.
‘The Making A Difference Workbook’
30 activities and exercises for successful thinking about work, life and everything
by the Go MAD Team, is an essential guide to help you put into practice successful thinking. The workbook is structured to allow you to think through key issues and turn them into practical applications that you can put to use immediately. It will help you take a step closer to what you want to achieve.
To order any of the above e-books, simply visit www.gomadthinking.com
CONTENTS
Page
Introduction 5
4 ways that this e-book will help you
1. Why you should consider the needs of others 6
How this impacts on delegation 6
- Key questions to consider
3. Have a reason for their involvement 7
4. Decide who to involve – those you know 8
Involving people you don’t yet know 8
- Extend your network
Enable the dead man to walk 9
- Discover further role models
What about Superman? 10
- Involving superheroes in achieving your goals
How to use all five categories of people 10
- An example of how this works
- 4 steps to understanding others
11. Recognise their reason why 12
12. Understand their goals and dreams 12
13. Give more to receive more 13
How likeable are you? 13
2 key questions to consider
Eleven tips to gain support 14
16. Learning summary 15
17. Where to go from here 15
Liability disclaimer
The material contained in this e-book is general and is not intended as advice on any particular matter. Go MAD Research & Consulting Group and the author expressly disclaim all and any liability to any person whatsoever in respect of anything done by any person in reliance, whether in whole or in part, on this e-book. Please take appropriate legal advice before acting on any information in this e-book.
INTRODUCTION
Principle five of our Solution Focused ThinkingTM System is what I term the most lateral thinking part of the system. It is all about involving other people to help you make a difference. This was touched on briefly in our e-book on thinking principle three (‘How to produce plentiful possibilities, pressing priorities and a perfect plan’). This e-book however, will take you much further and give you greater insight into harnessing the power of involving others.
This is all part of the ‘how’ to achieve a goal or make a difference. It will show you how to invest in a greatly under-utilised resource at your fingertips. It follows on from other e-books in this series but if you haven’t read any of the others – don’t worry! This book will still give you some great tips.
Solution Focused Thinking is the result of over 4000 hours of research into how people make a difference in their lives. It is a success system. Each time you read a bit more about one of the principles in Solution Focused ThinkingTM, then not only are you helping yourself think more clearly, more effectively and more quickly, but you are also helping yourself become more successful.
Take
Action
Involve
Others Personal Responsibility
Self
Belief
Plan Priorities Define
Goal Reason
Why
Go MAD Framework
This e-book will help you to:
Expand your thinking to five different types of people who could help you
Plan suitable ways to gain their buy-in
Understand the effect that this principle has on the rest of the thinking system
Improve your delegation skills.
So, if you would like to engage the services of Superman or any other superhero, real or imaginary, then I invite you to read further!
The greater the difference you want to make, the greater the potential for involving others. Your success will depend upon how effectively you gain the involvement of others to agree, implement, accept or take numerous other actions.
Involve Others
How
will I get the buy-in of others?
Plan Priorities Define
Goal Reason
Why
Your defined goal is linked to your reason why. Notice in the above diagram that your reason why (thinking principle one), is not directly linked to thinking principle five, ‘involve others’. The goal acts as a vehicle to satisfy your reason for wanting to make a difference. In order to involve others, you need to gain their acceptance of your goal being worthwhile. Not only that, but you also need to convince them that it is achievable.
This means you need to consider the needs of others you want to involve. What are their motives for action; their similar or conflicting goals; their current priorities; their likely levels of belief in your goal; their self-belief in their own ability, and their perceptions of you? These are questions you need to consider when planning who to involve in what, by when and how.
Other people will not make a difference about achieving a goal given to them by someone else, unless they have a strong enough reason why and believe it is achievable. Your role is to ensure they do – by involving them.
Think back to times in your life when someone has delegated a task to you.
How high was your motivation to achieve the task?
How well did the delegator explain the reason why the task had to be completed?
What did you get out of doing the task?
How important was it to the delegator to have this task completed?
Was the relevant importance clarified?
How were you consulted on how this task fitted in with other things that you had to do?
Supposing you had a task ‘dumped’ on you with no proper explanation, no idea of its importance, by someone you had little respect or time for. The likelihood is that you would leave the task undone until the last possible moment, you would only do it grudgingly, or perhaps you might not carry it out to the best of your ability.
This is because their ‘reason why’ is not your ‘reason why’ and the delegator has omitted to consider the above questions when delegating to you.
There are many possible reasons for involving others. You will have different reasons for wanting to involve different people. Identifying the specific reason for involving a particular person will enable you to think more clearly about the best way to approach them.
Pick a goal you want to achieve and use the following list to stimulate your thinking about possible reasons for involving others. Add any further reasons you have identified.
They have useful knowledge, or access to it.
They have specialist skills.
They have done it before.
They can influence other key people.
They can help you to gain access to other key people.
They are key decision-makers.
They can involve other people.
They have an interest in the outcome.
To save time.
To generate ideas.
To have fun.
To gain credibility.
To maintain organisational politics.
To complete tasks.
To help organise.
For support – emotional; financial; resources; etc.
As a sounding board to bounce ideas off.
To develop their skills, knowledge, behaviour, or self-belief.
To gain alternative viewpoints.
To learn from their experience.
To keep the dream alive.
To maintain momentum.
To reduce their resistance to change.
To improve your action planning.
To give you feedback about progress.
To steer you back on course.
Other reasons…
There are so many people who could potentially help if you approach them in the right way: friends, teachers, colleagues, customers, family, social acquaintances, business contacts, experts and many others. Consider involving:
your partner
people with a similar goal
people with shared core values
people inside and outside your peer group
people of higher and lower status or authority
people you admire.
This is the group of people from which we normally find others to help us. They are probably the easiest group to target, since family, friends and close colleagues are likely to be people we see anyway on a regular basis.
It is also possible to involve others that you don’t yet know, sometimes without ever meeting or getting to know them.
The knowledge and experience of others that you don’t yet know can be gained from books and a wide range of audio/visual material. This is an easy way of getting access to new information that will help you to make a difference.
“Knowledge has to be improved, challenged, and increased constantly, or it vanishes.”
Peter F. Drucker